Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1887-04-22
SIDEWALK PRATTLE,


In the back yard.
April .25 is arbor day.
Week of April showers.
Henry Wax is in Lewiston.
Salmon river is on the raise.
Hunt up your branding iron.
Still it SHOWS in the mountains.
Prepare for the spring roundup.
Get ready for the railroad boom.
A. j. Sbearer is home from Pomeroy.
Snow on Craig's mountain is almost
gone.
Garden truck is coming up from the
river.
Box up bed in warm spot and SOW
lettuce.
Gov. Hill of New York vetoed the
high license bill.
The man who knows the most never
tells it to the crowd.
- John Goram's boy, born last week,
turns out to be girl.
) Mr.. Beck forwarded his bonds as
postmaster this week.
Sam Melbourne was up from Salmon
river during the week.
- Mrs. A. Gordon, and son Roy arrived
on the prairie last week.
The tax-levy for this year in Nek
Perce county is $3.50 on the 500.
The bright stars you See in the heav
ems are Jupiter, Venus and Saturn.
D. B. Qpnham sold his decided pre-
emption claim TO J. Uhlenkott for $500
The spring fever is raging and tbe
boys anxious to get into the mountains
An Indian killed cougar last Satur-
day that measured ten feet from tip to
tip.
- Miss Maggie Robinson will comm ence
Fschool in district No. Is on Monday
next.
King & King sold 5000 worth of agri
cultural implements in one day thi'
week.
VI L. A. Wayland and family have
have returned to their ranch on Craig
! mountain.
II A telephone line will be established
lbetween Grangeville and Mt. Idah'
this summer.
IL The snow in the mountains is holdin,
fback and there will be tremendous higl
water in June.
A ]. L. Eckert and Frank Sinclair ar
I'm the Pen POreille country hunting
new stock range,
Mr.. and Mrs. Clifford, accompanied b.
their daughter, Miss Allie, left for thei
home in Iowa yesterday.
A brother of Judge L. S. Weller arri
we'd here from New York city last weeI
and may remain for good.
Iron clad note and receipt books
quartz location notices and warrant
deeds for sale at this Office.
There is some talk of organising al
Idaho county immigration society thi
spring. We ought to have it.
l., The road across this prairie has bee
4 travelled nearly thirty years and u is !
as poor shape now as it ever was,
The trustees of Fairview school dis
rict have engaged Joe, c. Stephens
teach the coming term of school,
Ch, Christie, of Freedom, is a Mexica
war veteran, and has forwarded th
necessary papers for pension.
:, - Williams, Loomis and Davis swa
, forty one head of horses across Saline
river last week with good success.
' The salary and fee bill partly pu'
i lished to-day will inform our reade
n what 1T will cost them to go to law.
A stormy easter is said to be follow
by six dirty-weather Sundays in succt
sion, and last Sunday partly proved it,
Martin Wagner returned from Pc
'@Yand on Mondays stage, and looks WI
y braced up for long siege Of hard wor
~ There are two people at present livi
ekon the connty-an old Frenchman
= Salmon river, and bliud johnson acr,
% Clearwater,
:, The sale of Mrs, Baldwin's, advertis
q for Wednesday last is postponed M
= Tuesday, April 26, when the auction y
positively take,
>. Parties desiring dental work done v
III find J. II. McCallie at his office in [